The settlers' violence in the #West_Bank constitutes a real threat and ongoing risk to Israeli, Palestinian, and international journalists reporting from the area. Those settlers responsible for these attacks on journalists should be sanctioned by the Biden administration.

CPJ condemns the Israeli attack in Gaza on a group of journalists wearing press insignia that resulted in cameraman Sami Shehadeh, of Turkish broadcaster TRT, having his leg amputated. The IDF's disregard for press insignia, both after and prior to October 7, endangers the lives

With the Israeli destruction of media offices, journalists are increasingly turning to hospitals as venues from which to report and regroup. Still, the attack on Al-Aqsa & Al-Shifa Hospital has made it so the press have even fewer places to work safely.
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With the Israeli destruction of media offices, journalists are increasingly turning to hospitals as venues from which to report and regroup. Still, the attack on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and on Al-Shifa Hospital has made it so the press have even fewer places to work safely.

“Academia needs to dissect the craft of journalism and conflict, how you can help journalism during conflict and the question of safety during conflict,” CPJ MENA researcher Mohamed Mandour told Washington Square News

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#Israel : CPJ urgently calls on the Israeli government not to close the Jerusalem-based bureau of Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera PR and allow the media to report freely on news events in #Israel and #Gaza during the current conflict.

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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned by new legislation authorizing the Netanyahu government to shutter Al-Jazeera in Israel.

Media Freedom Coalition The Wall Street Journal Read in #TheTorch newsletter: A closer look

CPJ’s most-read features in March include 'Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war' by CPJ MENA Researcher Mohamed Mandour

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My Newly translated Article with The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy .

uncovers how #Egypt 's security agencies control journalists and social media pages to push the state's narrative and, sometimes, achieve narrow political gains.

Thanks Mai El-Sadany Micha Tobia For your efforts and assistance.

#Gaza : CPJ expresses deep concern over reports that Palestinian journalist #Bayan_Abusultan has been missing for 10 days from the vicinity of Al-Shifa hospital. We call on #Israeli authorities to immediately disclose her whereabouts.

Silence from those who spent months casting doubt on Israeli testimonies of rape - now when a brave hostage details how she was chained & sexually tortured - is shameful. Those who use it to justify crimes in Gaza are similar. Propagandists, both.
#BringThemHome #CeasefireNOW

It's personally painful to learn that a fellow Egyptian activist in exile has passed away while away from home. It raises a question that we're all afraid to ask: are we destined to die in a foreign country, buried in a foreign land, without our loved ones at our funeral?

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I am thrilled to be back at University of Minnesota, where I earned my master's in HR,to discuss the current challenges to freedom of expression in the MENA. This includes domestic and transnational repression, the proliferation of surveillance technology usage & the ongoing wars in Gaza & Sudan

#Egypt : CPJ welcomes the release on bail of Mada Masr مدى مصر's journalist, Rana Mamdouh. We reiterate our call for the Egyptian authorities to immediately drop all charges against Mamdouh, emphasizing the need to cease employing the law to harass journalists and create a hostile

Sisi's regime doesn't want journalism to cover the Ras al-Hikma deal with the UAE or Ibrahim al-Argany, who controls the entrance of aid and the 'coordination' business at the Rafah crossing. Professional journalism stands as the most formidable adversary for Sisi's regime.

בלי חופש עיתונות - אין דמוקרטיה!

השר איתמר בן גביר וחבר הכנסת צביקה פוגל מנסים לבצע מחטף ולנטרל את האיזונים והבלמים בחוק שעוסק בסגירת כלי תקשורת - בניגוד לעמדת גורמי המקצוע.

פנינו היום ליועצת המשפטית לממשלה, עורכת הדין גלי בהרב מיארה וליועצת המשפטית של הכנסת, עורכת הדין שגית

CPJ is deeply alarmed by the death threats received by Israeli film director Yuval Abraham, as they illustrate an atmosphere of self-censorship and anti-press rhetoric in Israel, which has been expanding since the Israel-Gaza war
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